transliterate

Dodson decided to essentially transliterate the line, despite the grammatical awkwardness it introduces in English: “In the depths of the virgin-forest was born Macunaíma, hero of our people.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

The best an English translation can do is to transliterate the Greek letters—“Ototototoi”—or go with something like “Woe is me!” or “Alas!”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019

Maybe there was too much internal debate on how to best transliterate it.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2013

Though most of the world’s languages have no written form, people are beginning to transliterate their mother tongues into the alphabet of a national language.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011

Even after reading Professor Kittredge's essay, we cannot understand how Gray could catch the metrical lilt of the Old Norse with only a Latin version to transliterate the parallel Icelandic.

From The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby

There’s a word in Japanese that transliterates to “komorebi” and refers to a phenomenon for which there is no single word in English: the quality of light as it filters through foliage.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Otherwise, though, from the opener “Bigger,” The Gift transliterates the leonine royal-family drama and “circle of life” worldview of The Lion King into the recent main leitmotif of Beyoncé’s own work.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019

Sometimes the crew transliterates a dish’s name in a way that requires decoding at the table.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2018

They included “Edano_my_Angel,” “Edano_go_to_bed” and “Edano_nero,” which transliterates a Japanese word meaning “go to sleep.”

From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 16, 2011

Meaning, till the Church transliterates its entire set of Roman-script liturgical, ritual and other holy books to Devanagiri, the use of Roman Script will not die.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

Associated Press journalists saw some walls cracked or partially collapsed in the empty Aksu country village of Youkakeyamansu, a name transliterated in Mandarin from Uyghur.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

The inhabitants of Dat’s new town are gray cartoonish monsters whose language, transliterated onto the page, is a keysmash of Wingdings; Dat and his mother, by contrast, are full-color and human.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

Each one has at its center a simulated label emblazoned with that phrase, but transliterated into Japanese.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

Then again, that style was forged in private with no sense of an audience, as she transliterated, for example, R.E.M.’s cryptic mumbles into her own gender-flipped riddles.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2021

Mohan opens his book and starts reciting the transliterated words.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

We transcribed every handwritten name on the lists into a database, transliterating them from Arabic to English.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

“Simply transliterating Mitsuha and Taki’s star-crossed friendship into English, relocating it to the Pacific Northwest, and hoping for the best would be a disaster of its own,” David Ehrlich wrote on the IndieWire website.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2017

Almost certainly, a native Russian speaker wrote the original material, correctly transliterating the Russian “f” as “ph”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2017

Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016

The transcriber hopes he did a tolerable job in transliterating the Greek words in the preface.

From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament by Anonymous